Obama Downgrades Himself: Goes From B+ To 'Incomplete'

ABC News' Jake Tapper interviewed President Barack Obama
in North Carolina yesterday about his leadership of the economy
and his overall job performance.

Obama gave himself an "incomplete," saying he has yet to
accomplish everything he wants to get done — and said the economy
has "gone through not only two-and-a-half, three years of
post-recession blues."

Mitt Romney's campaign seized on the comment, digging up Obama's
interview with Oprah Winfrey in late 2009 where he gave
himself a "good, solid B-plus," hitting it as "another
downgrade."

ABC News' Jake Tapper: You
have gotten a lot passed though, much of your agenda has been
passed -- the stimulus, health care, Wall Street reform -- so
we're sitting in a state right now where a majority of the voters
disapprove of your handling of the economy and we're going to
Virginia later, where a majority of the voters do not thing you
deserve to be re-elected. We're sitting in a school, what grade
would you give yourself?

Obama: Well, you know I'm not going to give
myself a grade.

Tapper: Not even a midterm?

Obama: Other than "incomplete" because the
work that we started is not yet done, but the fact is that the
American people are rightly frustrated over what they see as a
system in which responsibility is not always rewarded, where
people who have done the right thing all their lives still seem
to be struggling, that sense that the American dream is slipping
away. I think that is something that helped get me elected but it
hasn't been entirely solved yet, and in some ways it's gotten
tougher for folks because of the financial crisis.